This year's TeX Users Group Conference (TUG 2014) was held in Portland, OR. The city also happens to be the home of TUG. I thought I would share some of the sights of the city as I walked around the Sunday before the conference.
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- Portland Food Truck
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- The Pioneer Courthouse Square Sign. If you get lost you should be able to find your way.
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- Sunday morning at the Pioneer Courthouse Square. That morning people were gathered for the Portland Brain Tumor Walk
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- The Pioneer Courthouse Square, aka the “Living Room”, opened in 1984 and is the world’s fourth-best public square.
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- Across the street from the Pioneer Courthouse Square is the Pioneer Courthouse. Built in 1869, it is the oldest federal building in the Pacific Northwest, and the second oldest west of the Mississippi River.
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- Director Park opened in 2009 and features a distinctive glass canopy.
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- Shemanski Fountain, or Rebecca at the Well is named after Joseph Shemanski, a Polish immigrant and businessman who donated the fountain to the city to “express in small measure gratitude” for what the city offered to him. The fountain depicts the Biblical Rebecca fetching water at a well.
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- The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall first opened as the Portland Publix Theater in 1928 to become the Paramount Theatre after 1930.
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- Daniel H. Lownsdale was one of the foundes of Portland, OR. He arrived from Kentucky somewhere before 1845 and purchased the land that would become downtown Portland on September 22, 1848.
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- The Elk, also known as the David P. Thompson Monument, Elk Fountain or the Thompson Elk, is an outdoor fountain and bronze sculpture by American artist Roland Hinton Perry, located in the Plaza Blocks in Portland, Oregon.
